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There was a wide selection of add-ons that were free and it was very easy to use. After an update, it feels like a completely different app. It went from a simple picture editor to some wannabe Instagram/social network sharing app where you now have to create an account and everything is geared towards sharing. I don't want to share my pics. I just want to edit them.
After the update, all of my add-ons were gone and any new add-ons now cost. You get 3 packs of add-ons by default but that's it. Like I said, it's basically an entirely new app, but with the PicArt name still attached to it. The basics are still there I guess, but it's very limited unless you want to shell out 99 cents or more every time you want new content. I don't care that much since I no longer use this app anymore, but I'm willing to guess that the changes involved the app being sold and then the new owners are the ones who transformed it into a wannabe Instagram. Very disappointing. I myself dislike this product because first of all you put a large watermark over the finished picture.
Now what am I suppose to do? I use this to make backgrounds and other cool pictures and my friends use it to make thumbnails for videos. However that ugly water mark is covering it and ruins the finished item. That and a few other user unfriendly things like how you now save things through having to forcefully post them just to save a picture. I'm sorry but you all either get it together and change these things back or I will not support it, share it use it or keep it on my computer in anyway. If I cant use it our enjoy it while I use it then I'm not going to endorse it for any reason.
Soon my upload speed was maxed out (and as of the time of writing still is) and my friends and I had connections from all over the world and for all three platforms! How does piracy feel? The cracked version is nearly identical to the real thing except for one detail Initially we thought about telling them their copy is an illegal copy, but instead we didn’t want to pass up the unique opportunity of holding a mirror in front of them and showing them what piracy can do to game developers.
So, as players spend a few hours playing and growing their own game dev company, they will start to see the following message, styled like any other in-game message. Why are there so many people that pirate? As a gamer I laughed out loud: the IRONY!!! However, as the developer, who spent over a year creating this game and hasn’t drawn a salary yet, I wanted to cry. Surely, for most of these players, the 8 dollars wouldn’t hurt them but it makes a huge difference to our future! Trying to appeal to pirates I know that some people just don’t even think about buying games. They will immediately search for a cracked version.
For this reason, when we released the game, we also published a page which targets people who search. Unfortunately, due to my lack in search-engine-optimization skills, that page has had no impact yet, but I hope it will convince some to buy the game in the future. if years down the track you wonder why there are no games like these anymore and all you get to play is pay-to-play and social games designed to suck money out of your pockets then the reason will stare back at you in the mirror. I do think it’s important to try to communicate what piracy means to game developers to our consumers. I also tried to appeal to a particular forum a day earlier after someone who I gave early-access to the Store seemed to have passed on the copy to others. We’re just a start-up and really need your support. The game is only 7.99USD, DRM free Clearly, my post hadn’t worked too well since on the same forum someone posted the earlier screenshot (“ Why are there so many people that pirate?
It ruins me!) just a bit after I made my appeal and this was followed by many others complaining about piracy. I still hope that it made a difference to someone.
Anyway, how many really did buy and how many did pirate our game during this first day? The awesome/depressing results Today, one day after release, our usage stats look like this. Genuine version: 214 users Cracked version: at least 3104 users Over 93.6% of players stole the game. We know this because our game contains some code to send anonymous-usage data to our server. Nothing unusual or harmful. Heaps of games/apps do this and we use it to better understand how the game is played. It’s absolutely anonymous and you are covered by our privacy policy.
Anyway, the cracked version has a separate ID so I can separate the data. I’m sure some of the players have firewalls and some will play offline therefore the actual number of players for the cracked version is likely much higher. To the players who played the cracked version! I’m not mad at you. When I was younger, downloading illegal copies was practically normal but this was mostly because global game distribution was in its infancy. To be fair, there are still individuals who either can’t make a legal purchase because of payment-issues or who genuinely cannot afford the game. I don’t have a quarrel with you.
To the rest who could afford the game consider this:. Would you like to see a bigger/better sequel of Game Dev Tycoon in the future? Buy the game! Creating this game was already expensive and this was just a small game. If we ever want to make a bigger/better version we need a lot of support!. Do you hate the trend towards social or pay-to-play free games? Buy games from independent developers!
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(start with ours:)). Do you hate the? Buy DRM free games. We are not wealthy and it’s unlikely that we will be any time soon, so stop pretending like we don’t need your 8 dollars! We are just two guys working our butts off, trying to start our own game studio to create games which are fun to play. The game is DRM free, you can use it on up to three of your computers for your own use, you get copies for Mac, Windows and Linux, you can continue your game before piracy wrecked your company and we even aim to provide you with a free Steam key once the game is on Steam.
All for a mere 8 bucks. Final words Do we need DRM? Whether or not to use DRM isn’t clear at all to a new start-up. The main argument against it is that all it does is to inconvenience genuine customers. Fact is that any game can be cracked, so all you do is spend time on something that in the end just annoys your real customers while only slightly delaying the inevitable. The only way to protect yourself is to create an online game. I guess that’s why so many studios focus on these types of games and it’s probably a driving force to eradicate traditional single player games.
Personally, I love single players games and hope to be able to continue down this path and if more people would buy our game, we might even be able to. Would I do this again? This was a unique opportunity. You need a game development simulation game to make this particular joke work. The more general idea/experiment to release a cracked version which inconveniences and counts pirates can probably work for any game and might work in the long run.
If pirates are put through more trouble than genuine customers, maybe more will buy the real game. Sadly, for AAA games it is currently the other way. Customers get the trouble with always-on requirements and intrusive DRM, while pirates can just download and enjoy. A twisted world. To our genuine customers Thank you for your support. Your purchase is more important to us than you might think. We hope to be able to bring you more games in the future. Also, please update to the latest version of the game by using the download link from your purchase email. Before writing this blog post I’ve fixed most of the known issues 🙂 Patrick Klug – Greenheart Games ♥ If you want to comment on this post, please do so.
This is a very impressive little posting about piracy, irony and the small indipendent game-developer Greenheart Games, and simply to informative not to repost it. The developer had been working on a game, where you are playing a game-developer simulation hence fittingly named Game Dev Tycoon. Their ingenious idea of seeding a “cracked” version alongside the release of their actual game is not only funny but also revealing a sad truth about current computer gaming morals. It is worth a read, if you like games or develop them! What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy?
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'When Greenheart Games released their very first game, Game Dev Tycoon (for Mac, Windows and Linux) yesterday, they did something unusual and as far as I know unique. They released a cracked version of the game, minutes after opening their Store. The pirated copy was completely same as the real copy, except that after a few hours into the game, players started noticing widespread piracy of their games in the game development simulator.' Via slashdot. “Over 93.6 percent of players stole the game. We know this because our game contains some code to send anonymous-usage data to our server. Nothing unusual or harmful.
Heaps of games/apps do this and we use it to better understand how the game is played. Barringer and ireland entrepreneurship pdf files free. It’s absolutely anonymous and you are covered by our privacy policy. Anyway, the cracked version has a separate ID so I can separate the data.
I’m sure some of the players have firewalls and some will play offline therefore the actual number of players for the cracked version is likely much higher”, Greenheart says. The short version of the story is that Game Dev Tycoon is a game about starting your own Game Development Studio. The games developers saw an opertunity to hold a mirror to the face of pirates and deliberately released a version of the game to torrent sites that worked perfectly, but after a certain point the players in game studio would find themselves unable to continue making money due to rampant piracy of their games. People had a good laugh at the pirates complaining about this unpassable point in the game, amused by the fact they were unaware of the irony of what was happening to them, examples of which you can see by going to the developers blog. I found a very interesting piece on piracy by indie devs Greenheart Games. I think something like this has been done before (Stardock comes to mind), but I don’t remember reading a write-up as detailed as this. I find it quite interesting that pirates would join online communities to ask for help in playing the pirated game. While I don’t condone piracy, I do live in the real world where people acquire things for zero dollars.
But to then jump online on a forum to get help for a game you didn’t pay for? That seems almost like putting the boot in.
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